Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office or jurisdiction of a zemindar.
- noun The tract of territory administered or controlled by a zemindar; also, the system of landholding and revenue-collection under zemindars. Also written zamindari, zemindari, zemindaree, zemindarry, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
zamindary .
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- noun Alternative form of
zamindari .
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Examples
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A native town in one of the zemindary estates was so mutilated by them that it looked as if it had sustained a siege.
Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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The British, for whom they had often fought because that way honor seemed to lie, had impoverished them afterward by passing and enforcing zemindary laws that lifted nine-tenths of the burden from the necks of starving tenants.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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The officers employed on the great zemindary estates have from three to four rupees, and that this is a high salary, is proved by the fact that the police receive but 48 rupees ($23) per annum, out of which they feed and clothe themselves!
The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836
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He would call the attention of the house to the statement of a celebrated native of India, the Rajah Rammohun Roy, who about twenty years ago published a pamphlet in London, in which he pointed out the ruinous effects of the zemindary system, and the oppression experienced by the ryots in the presidencies both of Bombay and
The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836
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Sing in possession of the Rajah's family, in possession of his affairs, in the management of his whole zemindary; and in the course of the next year he is to give him in farm the whole of the revenues of these three provinces.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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These lands were not without an ownership, but were lands in the hands of the Rajah, and were to be severed from the zemindary, and given to Gunga Govind Sing.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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How came this Rajah's family into possession of this great zemindary?
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Says he, "I have never entertained any such intention or idea," that is, of seizing upon other people's zemindaries; "neither am I at all desirous of acquiring any other person's zemindary in this country," &c ....
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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-- I believe, to the zemindary of Radshi, belonging to Ranny Bhowanny.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Ranny Bhowanny, possessing the zemindary of Radshi, an old lady of the first rank and family in India, was stripped of part of her zemindary, and it was given to Lucknaut Nundy, the son of Mr. Hastings's banian; and then (you see the consequence of good examples) comes Gunga Govind
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
smerus commented on the word zemindary
zemindary: the estate held by a zemindar.
January 29, 2007